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Historian (Early Medieval) ❧ Bishops ❧ Church History ❧ Female Power ❧ England ❧ ‘Germany’ ❧ Scandinavia ❧ based @ University of Cologne ❧ @fobim.bsky.social ❧ @digitrip.bsky.social ❧ Header: Bamberg Msc.Lit.53, fol.2v ❧ opinions my own ❧ he/him
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submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Science being "apolitical" or "objective" is an illusion. If we do not act when fascists and liars are actively working to supress facts and eradicate institutions and humans, we are complicit in their agenda. Just speaking from experience as a German.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

“Wo waren die als Walter Lübcke ermordet wurde?” fragte Merz heute beim Wahlkampfabschluss vorwurfsvoll in Richtung derjenigen, die in den letzten Wochen gegen seine Mehrheitsbildung mit der AfD demonstriert haben. Sie haben natürlich auch damals für die Demokratie demonstriert:

submitted 6 days ago • 67 comments

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 7 days ago • 896 comments

Hey #MedievalSky (or later)! I'm struggling with this 16th century transcription of this word - it looks like "Zedorona"? But that doesn't seem to be a word. It's from Leiden VUL 66 fol. 110v, and appears to read "Aut satrianus ager vel Zedorona gerit". hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:... Any thoughts?

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Postgrads and early post-docs, don't forget the Marjorie Chibnall Prize for the Battle Conference deadline is 11 March! Details here. battleconference.wordpress.com/marjorie-chi...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Pssst — a secret message for German-speaking science friends: There’s an open slot in the curation schedule for @realscide.bsky.social next month. Get in touch with me via DM if you feel like taking over the account for a week!

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Nach ihrem Beitrag zur Multispektralfotografie stellen Mohamed Basuony, Nuray Haskilic und Aşina Aleyna Yıldız in einem weiteren Beitrag mit ein Tool zur Bearbeitung von Handschriften-Scans vor. #DH #DigitalHumanities #bookhistory digitrip.hypotheses.... 1/2

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Ich freu mich, dass sozusagen über meinem Kopf nun Solarstrom erzeugt wird. ☺️ ☀️

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Die Gründungsgeschichte der Abtei Brauweiler liegt erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vor. Meine Rezension dazu ist heute in der Historischen Zeitschrift erschienen: doi.org/10.1515/hzhz... #medievalsky

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Eine Rede, die Anerkennung verdient. In 1 Minute zeigt @ricardalang.bsky.social , wie man mit der AfD umgehen sollte und ja, sie spricht Friedrich Merz zurecht die Kanzlerfähigkeit ab. Hut ab vor dieser Rede!

submitted 29 days ago • 189 comments

Friedrich Merz hat heute eines sehr verantwortlich klar gemacht: Wer die CDU wählt, wählt AfD.

submitted 30 days ago • 57 comments

From this dark day onwards, members (and voters) of the CDU and FDP will have to take responsibility—and be held responsible—for sacrificing the country’s democratic integrity at the altar of cheap fascist populism. The Rubicon has been crossed.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Historian: Obviously, this has to be attributed to the loss of sources.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Historian: Obviously, this has to be attributed to the loss of sources.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

CfP! Reisen – pilgern – migrieren www.hsozkult.de/searching/id...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone have access to the Quaritch Catalogue, Nr. 1348 Bookhands of the Middle Ages: Medieval Manuscripts VIII (2007). I would be very grateful for the images and information on lot. 62, which is a fragment of a sacramentary in Rhaetian minuscule (s.VIII/IX).

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

"Advice for research presentations": When I was a PhD student, I came across some very practical advice from Danuta Shanzer for presenters at conferences. I read it many times and found it very useful. Here is my own version, which I hope might be useful to somebody. www.pmoran.ie/posts/advice...

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

Leider wird die Freude über meine Buchpublikation von großer Trauer getrübt. Mein Doktorvater Achim Hack (Jena) ist am 20. Januar verstorben. 2010 habe ich ihn als Studentin kennengelernt und seine ruhige, unprätentiöse Art, mit der er allen auf Augenhöhe begegnete, gleich zu schätzen gewusst.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Get thee to a nunnery ✝️

submitted 41 days ago • 74 comments

Does anyone know roughly when/by whom the term ‘þjóðveldi’/Icelandic Commonwealth/Icelandic Free State was coined? I know it's modern but I don't remember where I read about this and I'm trying to find a source...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

It’s #HandwritingDay so I thought I’d share a thread about Renaissance handwritten documents I worked with in the research that led to “Inventing the Renaissance,” and the best and worst scripts I’ve ever seen. 1/? (Continuing countdown to the release of my *absurdly fat* *absurdly orange* book!)

submitted 36 days ago • 8 comments

Finally got around to reading this the last couple of weeks – an absolutely superb piece of scholarship which lays the foundations for an entirely new understanding of Italian politics of the 11th and 12thC. Highly recommended.

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

The Scottish Sunday Herald TV guide featured this preview of the Trump inauguration. It’s fucking brilliant.

submitted 40 days ago • 93 comments

Wir sind jetzt auch hier! In über 450 Blogs berichten Forschende aus den deutschsprachigen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften – und wir teilen ihre spannenden Beiträge. Die Themen sind so vielfältig wie die Disziplinen selbst: von Geschichte und Philosophie bis zu Literatur und Kulturwissenschaft.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Two recent books on Louis the German, published in 2024, have been exposed by the MGH as #fakescience. Not only are they filled with fabricated references, but the supposed authors themselves don’t even exist! 📚⚠️ Read the @monumenta.bsky.social 's post exposing the fraud: www.mgh.de/de/blog/post...

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

In #Göttingen wurde in den 60er Jahren ein #Skelett an einen studentischen Grabungshelfer verschenkt. Jetzt wurde es in #Fulda in einer Erbschaft aufgefunden. #Archäologie #Anthropologie #Ausgrabung 🏺

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Im ersten Beitrag des neuen Jahres geht es im DigiTRiP um digitale Paläographie. Mohamed Basuony, Nuray Haskilic und Aşina Aleyna Yıldız stellen darin die Methode der Multispektralfotografie in der Arbeit mit Handschriften vor. #DH #DigitalHumanities digitrip.hypotheses....

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Not the best (or longest) of these, but I did finally write a "GenAI Statement" for this semester's syllabus:

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

Mein Arbeitgeber ist jetzt auch hier … 👋 Schön, dass gleichzeitig der X-Account nicht mehr aktiv genutzt wird.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments